It is the work of two musical legends who have come together to celebrate jazz music and the genre's greatest milestones. "Cheek To Cheek" is the collaborative project of Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett that spans several generations of artists and brings together quite a few reinterpretations of jazz classics and standards that the and standards, which the two have sung both as duets and solo.

The album features the greatest highlights of the "Great American Songbook" - including "Anything Goes", "It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)", "Sophisticated Lady", "Lush Life" and "Cheek To Cheek", the title track of the longplayer

Recorded in New York, the two worked intensively on the joint album for over a year On the joint album. Among the musicians involved in the recording were friends such as members of Bennett's quartet, pianist Tom Lanier and jazz trumpeter and longtime creative partner of Lady Gaga, Brian Newman. Other jazz soloists include tenor saxophonist Joe Lovano and flute virtuoso Paul Horn, who died in early July.